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Yan Wang1, Zhijie Zhao1, Fang Liu2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Henan Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
|December 16, 2020
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Keywords:
aquaporinsgene expressionleaf developmentreproductive developmentroot growthseed germinationshoot elongation

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